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Comment donated to the salaries of the charity organizers (Score 1) 65

$150k taken as a lump sum is $75k and after tax is probably closer to $50k which honestly isn't that much. I'm hopeful her "most cherished charities" are unlike the vast majority in that only about 10% of that money actually makes it to those in need, the rest goes to "administration fees".

Generally speaking, such money is better used to directly support your neighbors. Spend it on staples and donate that to local food banks. Perhaps I'm jaded by experience, but I would never trust a charity with cash.

Comment Check their data sources (Score 3, Interesting) 179

This "analysis" is based entirely on CCP statistics, not an independent studfy. They used the following data sources for this report:

National Bureau of Statistics of China
National Energy Administration of China
China Electricity Council
China Customs official data releases
and Sinopec, Chinaâ(TM)s largest oil refiner.

Comment Re:Westinghouse is Chinese owned (Score 1) 50

You need to go a little further - Brookfield is tied directly to the CCP with contracts for four new AP1000's in China signed last year. And Cameco, the other firm involved, supplies nuclear fuel to China.

These are Canadian companies financed by (and controlled by) the Chinese State.

Comment Re:This is a preposterous conclusion to make (Score 1) 48

Water is the single most common molecule in the universe. It's literally everywhere. It's presence does not connote a habitable zone, even in liquid form. The pressures, the high salinity / alkalinity, the lack of sunlight, the intense radiation all make it a lethal area for anything approaching an amino acid.

Comment Re:This is a preposterous conclusion to make (Score 1) 48

These moons are orbiting in a sea of organics from the planet itself. Methane, ammonia, an abundance of hydrocarbons. To have traces of these compounds erupting is expected.

There are too many ifs and maybes in this. It's not enough to "maybe" harbor an environment that "might" support primitive life, there needs to be a mechanism in place for that life to have evolved in the first place and there is nothing in that moons history to support that possibility.

Comment Re:Their overall energy production is also way dow (Score 1) 105

Oh for the love of... give it a rest. The only reason nuclear is expensive is because of irrational fear mongering and uneducated politicians over burdening the industry with unnecessary regulations.

I hate to break it to ya, but we already have thousands of nukes. And commercial reactors are not used for breeding weapons grade material in any event.

Comment Their overall energy production is also way down (Score 2) 105

Germany's recent peak power production was around 650 TW but as of last year that was down to 500 TW. Coal and Lignite have always been "fillers" so it makes sense that such a steep reduction in power production would cut those dirty sources first.

The recent push to restart their nuclear reactors would put the final stake in the heart of coal.

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